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Excellent hand-picked games, 14-day refund policy, always DRM-free.

We want GOG.com to be the home of games that are both excellent and really worth your time.
In today's gaming world, we're seeing more and more titles that become hits before development dwindles down. We want to give you a way to enjoy what these games have to offer, a way that's comfortable and fair to you — the GOG.com way: that means evaluating each and every game, a 14-day no-questions-asked refund policy, and more.




That's why today, we're introducing the first five games in development:
Starbound (-33%)
Ashes of the Singularity (-25%)
Project Zomboid (-40%)
TerraTech (-30%)
The Curious Expedition (-15%)







The GOG.com way.
First and foremost: we're hand-picking only the games we can truly stand behind. Offering a selection of the most promising titles, and those most highly requested on the Community Wishlist, is our way of avoiding bloat and ensuring that every game will be worth your time.

It takes some confidence to discover games that are still being shaped — and to build that trust, every game in development comes with a simple refund policy: 14 days, no questions asked. It doesn't matter if you're having technical issues, if you don't think the game is sufficiently fleshed out, or if it simply doesn't click with you — all games in development can be returned for any reason within 14 days of purchase.

The GOG Galaxy client should also come in handy for games in development. It lets you control updates manually if you want, while the rollback feature allows you to easily restore any earlier version of your game if an update breaks something or makes unwanted changes. For games in development, rollback will also track and create historical snapshots throughout a game's development. That means you can always revisit any point in a game's history — for fun, or for science.






It's your call.
For those of you who prefer to wait for the final release, nothing will change. Once a game leaves active development, we will be making the announcement and giving the newest release proper exposure. Basically, business as usual.






More info.
Surely you have questions. You'll find many of the answers in the <span class="bold">games in development FAQ, including more details on the new refund policy. Our User Agreement has also been expanded to accommodate games in development — check out sections 6.12, 6.13, and 6.14 to find all the new information.




Enjoy your time with games in development!
Post edited January 28, 2016 by Konrad
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bno112300: Does the rollback feature let you go back to any version of the game, and not just ones you have backed up on your machine?

That'd be great.
Yes, but it is available only through Galaxy client.
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Reaper9988: Downloading the actual game works like any other game though right ?
I mean without galaxy.
Yes again. Games are supplied with normal offline installers.
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vicklemos: 1) Early Access.... EA.... humm
2) Achiements for these? I hope so!
3) It seems to me that these days a LOT of released games are quite broken, and this "early access seal" just clarifies the whole deal.
4) Count me in. I bought a couple of EA games in the past and zero regrets so far.
5) CRAWL next week, plz ;P
2) Achievements - if a game has them, then it will be listed in the "Features" section :)
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JudasIscariot: 2) Achievements - if a game has them, then it will be listed in the "Features" section :)
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Starmaker: Some games with achievements still don't have the actual achievements -- for example, Deponia.
Are they not showing for you or are they not listed in the Features section?
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DrearierSpider: My only major request is that these games have a big, bold label denoting them as in development. This should be on the store page and the title cards on the front page.
Ummm there is a rather large label just above the price for each game In Development, the games are marked "In Dev" in the NEW tab, and there is an "In Dev" right next to the game's title in your library :)
Post edited January 28, 2016 by JudasIscariot
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tapeworm00: This is big - I pretty much never buy Early Access titles but the no-questions-asked refund does mean it's actually a try before you buy kind of thing, and not a 'help us test the beta' scenario. Those of you complaining about "EA making its way here" are looking at it wrong, because GOG's approach is as a store, for consumers, not as a platform, for gamers.

GOG does need to make the 'in development' tag very, very clear in the store page, though.
We did do so :) Please see the attached image :)
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HunchBluntley: So, to use your example, if I bought that game only after the third of those five patches had been put out, I would still be able to roll back to the version available just before the first patch?
You'll get access to all versions.
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chatnick: Hey GoG, currently it's impossible to find Games in Development with the search.
(f.e. with "in Development")

Can you update this.
Here's how:

Go to "Games"

Click "Features"

Make sure the check box for "In Development" has a check in it.

This will show you only the games "In Development"

See: http://www.gog.com/games##sort=bestselling&amp;feature=in_development&amp;page=1
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Thiev: You'll get access to all versions.
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Starmaker: Will post-release buyers get access to InDev versions?
(Just wondering, already got the whole set.)
If it's available for rollback, it is available to all.
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omega64: ... I'm not sure not selling Early Access games was a advertised GOG standard had though.
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Trilarion: One advertised standard from the early days was that extras are always included in the price for the game. That changed over the years. Now they are selling soundtracks separately and I really wonder if they sell a lot of it or not. But this is also a different story and not connect to EA/GiD.
We are selling them because a) they are sold separately elsewhere b) soundtracks for modern games have different licensing agreements than the ones made for classic games where everything was made in-house and c) if we don't sell them as they are sold elsewhere then we have people asking why they are not being sold here in the first place and we cannot expect our partners to make exceptions just for us when it comes to these things.

Also, we still include extras where and when we can but not all games have all that much extra stuff to begin with.